This protection may be sufficient to slow the drying of forest fuels and preserve them in a non-flammable state during most savanna fire encroachments.
They are chemically inert, non-flammable under normal conditions, have good electrical insulation properties and also conduct heat well.
Oxygen is a non-flammable gas, but will support combustion.
Fluorinated gases have high energy efficiency, are non-flammable and non-toxic, and can be handled and managed by workers in total safety.
Do we not buy garments that are non-flammable?
At the moment, no adequate, economical, non-toxic and non-flammable alternative exists.
Marked "non-flammable", in tests the bags were engulfed in flame within 90 seconds.
Such shirts should be labelled to show whether they are non-flammable or inflammable, according to the type of material used to fill them.
